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Andrew Stewart

Changing Higher Education: Who are our customers for education? II. Society as customer. - 0 views

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  • Thus, the challenge is not to determine whether or not society is one of the customers of higher education- it is - but to define in this rapidly changing and globalizing world what "society" is, and what it expects (and will expect) of higher education
  •  The same survey concluded that 2/3 of Americans believe students and their families - not the government- should pay the largest share of the cost of higher education, thus reconfirming the view that the respondents consider higher education to be a private rather than societal benefit.
  • It is important, therefore, that we consider society to be a customer whose interests, concerns, and expectations must be understood if we are to continue and improve this powerful synergistic relationship.  Changing conditions will causing changing expectations, however, and higher education must constantly seek to understand the nature of those changing expectations in order to continue to play a major role in shaping the changes. 
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Anthropology Program at Kansas State University - Wesch - 0 views

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    Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the impact of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over ten languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities.
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The Wealth of Networks » Chapter 1: Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and... - 0 views

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    Yochai Benkler's wealth of nations book online Next Chapter: Part I: The Networked Information Economy » read paragraph Chapter 1: Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge 1 Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development. How they are produced and exchanged in our society critically affects the way we see the state of the world as it is and might be; who decides these questions; and how we, as societies and polities, come to understand what can and ought to be done. For more than 150 years, modern complex democracies have depended in large measure on an industrial information economy for these basic functions. In the past decade and a half, we have begun to see a radical change in the organization of information production. Enabled by technological change, we are beginning to see a series of economic, social, and cultural adaptations that make possible a radical transformation of how we make the information environment we occupy as autonomous individuals, citizens, and members of cultural and social groups. It seems passé today to speak of "the Internet revolution." In some academic circles, it is positively naïve. But it should not be. The change brought about by the networked information environment is deep. It is structural. It goes to the very foundations of how liberal markets and liberal democracies have coevolved for almost two centuries.
Andrew Stewart

Wade Armstrong: Knowledge Supply Chain Management - 0 views

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  • My father argues that inventory is held in the universities, which create and collect knowledge, but I’d say that knowledge inventory is much more held in the hands of university graduates, who store knowledge in case their employers ever need it.
  • Right now, we ask people to get the most knowledge, when they have the least ability to predict what they’ll do for a living. As a consequence, businesses need to send people out for training in basic things, like public speaking and conflict resolution.
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Changing Higher Education: Who are our customers for education? I. The employer as cust... - 0 views

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  • Perhaps, instead of viewing students and their parents as our customers for education, we should view the future employers of our students as our real customers
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      Andrew Stewart on 25 Apr 09
       
      All sorts of tie ins i.e. curriculum design through employer engagement
  • both future employers, and society generally
  • described higher education as being in the knowledge chain management business(What business are we in?, March 1, 2006)
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  • moving new knowledge quickly to potential end users
  • graduates become a key part of the knowledge supply chain which moves knowledge from the creators and explicators to the users
  • provide the student with skills and knowledge that will enable the future employer to better succeed in a knowledge economy
  • they also challenge us because they find our graduates can’t write or speak well enough, do not think critically or creatively enough, and don’t know enough about the world outside their field
  • educational experience emphasizes  development of fundamental basic skills that will have lifetime utility such as critical thinking, creativity, entrepreneurship, communication, cultural understanding, etc
  • life-long sequence of “just-in-time” educational experiences
  • Rather they are “independent partners” who have invested in an education that will enable them to become valued contributors to their institution’s knowledge chain
  • Thus one might envisage that competition in quality and scope of  continuing education might soon become a significant element of higher education.
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